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NCSA welcomes you to the Illinois Computes initiative! We invite you to submit a request briefly describing your intended use of computation, data, or support resources, and we will get back to you within 3 business days: https://go.illinois.edu/ncsaconsulting

See below for a list of NCSA resources, expertise, and systems for your reference.

Access to computing resources and user support for researchers across UIUC

Available Resources

• AI and Machine Learning
• Modeling and Simulation
• Data Science
• Secure computing (HIPAA, CUI, and FERPA)
• Domain Expertise (Engineering, Genomics, Crop Science, Data Analytics, Physics, Geographic Information Systems, Astronomy, and Numerical Methods)

Available Systems

• High Performance Computing
• CPUs
• GPUs
• HIPAA compliant
• Mass storage
• On-premises cloud

Support personnel are available to help

• answer questions about how to get started
• compose and maintain scientific workflow
• benchmarking scientific software
• research solutions to complex questions
• explain the technologies available
• optimize and modernize existing code
• work in a range of programming languages and environments such as C/C++, Python, Java, Perl, MPI, OpenMP, Pthreads, Charm++, Containers, SQL, Jupyter, Kubernetes, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Jax, OpenACC, CUDA, I/O
• install and maintain software
• consult on scientific applications and codes
• visual data analysis (e.g. data dashboards)
  
• data visualization for broader impacts, outreach, and science communication (e.g. climate, flow fields, astrophysics, film/museum)
• longer term research collaboration in various interdisciplinary domains
• joint proposal development to government funding agencies and industry

Get Started

Interested in getting started, but not sure what you need: Contact us here

Interested in getting started and you already know what you need: Contact us here

Computing Resources

• Campus Cluster - CPU and GPU batch-submission environment plus storage
• Delta - GPU-rich supercomputer for simulation, AI/ML, Data Science
• Nightingale -  HIPAA secure computation environment
  
• Radiant -  private cloud computing service
• HOLL-I -  batch computing cluster which provides access to a Cerebras CS-2 Wafer Scale Engine for high performance Machine Learning work
• HAL - GPU-rich cluster for AI/ML
• Hydro - CPU and GPU options for AI/ML/MPI workloads

Storage Resources

• Granite - Tape Archive system, for storing longer term archive datasets.
• Taiga - Global File System that is able to integrate with all non-HIPAA environments